Minted News: Launching a New Artist Community Experience

Written by Vineet Gupta

One of the most exciting parts of our work here at Minted is supporting the creativity, personal development, and careers of the best independent artists in the world. We are here because of you—we love your creativity in exploring new design boundaries and your courage to put your vision out there for everyone to appreciate. Our brand is built around you, as an individual artist.

As you may have heard on previous conference calls and from other community members, we’re revamping the artist community section of our website over the course of 2015. We’re adding new features, tools, and services to make it easy for you to participate in our challenges, give and take feedback from other artists in our community, and build your brand and business on Minted.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the first phase of this redesign today. Here’s a quick tour of some of the redesigned features that are a part of this first phase:

Redesigned “Participate” section. Enjoy a new look and feel for the Participate section of the site, with a redesigned navigation to help new artists learn about our challenge process and the community.

Challenges page. Find all the open challenges to submit, critique and vote in one place—the Challenges page. You can also see upcoming challenges, recent winner announcements, and community events on the same page.

Synchronized calendar for Challenge deadlines and Community events. Keep track of all design challenges and community events in your Google calendar, Outlook, or any calendar of your choice. It will automatically update your calendar as we announce new challenges or update deadlines, or host events.

Challenge Home. Each design challenge on Minted will now have a new home where you can find all of the Challenge activity and information in one place. You’ll find the latest submissions, requests for feedback, open polls, information about the challenge and the prizes, and a leaderboard. You’ll be able to submit your designs, vote on designs, like designs, and finally see the winner announcements here as well. See, for example, our home page for the 2015 Holiday Cards Challenge.

Artist Dashboard. Brand-new is our artist Dashboard—this is your personalized starting point on Minted. Here, you’ll see your stats, recent submissions, announcements from Minted, and much more. The Dashboard will make it easy for you to see current challenges and voting, give feedback, and connect with other artists in the community. Find a link to your Dashboard by logging in to Minted and clicking on your name on the top right corner.

We hope these changes will help you create, promote, and enjoy your work on Minted. This is the first phase of a complete redesign of your artist community experience on Minted; we’ll be rolling out new features and improvements throughout the rest of this year. We’d love to hear your feedback on these new features, and how we may be able to improve them to better fit your needs. Please share your feedback here.

We are committed to providing you the best platform to develop, get exposure for your work, and have fun with likeminded creatives. We ask that you pay it forward by helping your fellow Minties with honest, constructive critiques, and support.

We’re heading to the National Stationery Show this weekend to demonstrate some of these features and collect feedback in person from some of our community members. We also have a community VoiceIt conference call scheduled for later this month, where you can ask questions and give us feedback. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! You can also check out some of the frequently asked questions from artists about the new community redesign.

I can not access my page anymore! The New banner is covering the options!!!

JessicaMay 15, 2015 at 4:17 pm

I think it’s a beautiful new redesign, however it’s a little confusing on this page: https://www.minted.com/participate/challenges I think it would be helpful if the triangles that say “submit” and the triangles that say “vote” were different colors from each other, because when you just look at it at a glance it’s not easy to tell which ones that challenge is still open for and which one is closed but ready to be voted on. Thanks for letting me state my 2 cents.